At this point in time music was treated as a series of equations, which honestly makes me feel stressed out when I listen to it because it feels like run on sentences in dry language. I hate to use the example of Flea and John Frusciante, but they are such a vivid example of music as communication that it's hard to explain it in other terms. Flea's baselines will carry a shape of a chord, scale, or harmony inside them, without explicitly being built around them. John will say that he often feels like there's only one solution to the puzzle that Flea is creating, but that Flea then feels like there is a logical next step to what he plays as he hears what John's doing, which makes some of their live jams just mesmerizing. They both strongly believe in the Japanese/jazz ideal of space. In many interviews and podcasts, John especially will talk about how the space between the notes is just as important, and sometimes more important than the notes, because it allows the notes to stand on their own and reverberate. With this music I feel dizzy. It feels like there's nothing being communicated. It feels like noise without feeling. It's the opposite of what make reggae, metal, movie scores, rock, rap, jazz, and even dubstep feel satisfying to listen to. There's no space.
@@Starbuck32123 I think your issue with type of music is philosophical in nature and not musical. Not everything is phenomenological, nor is everything rigidly metaphysical (
I often feel like he knew the secrets of the universe better than scientists, or at least channeled a part of it. Since music was his media, all the secrets are written as musical notes, special codes for us to decipher.
I remember, back in 1974, when I was doing my military service at the age of 19, one of my mates came up to me and said: “One of my friends has got a classical record that he wants to sell. Aren’ t you one that likes that kind of stuff? Wanna buy it?” I had to admit that I actually was one of those peculiar human beings, and asked if I could see the record in question. A few days later he brought the record and we agreed upon the sum of 10 Swedish Crowns ( between 1 USD and 1 GBP). It has been my favourite of Bachs mighty flowing organ works ever since. My preferred recording today is by Simon Preston and the recording back then was with Helmut Walcha. Always interested to hear suggestions of your favourites. Best Regards from Sweden/ Per
I have not seen this score in 64 years! This was my "exam piece" to sight-read (Toccata only) for AGO certification in Dallas TX in 1955. I love Bach, but I never played this piece again.
It consisted of selected portions. As I recall there was only a section of one pedal solo. Years before that I was a piano student at New Orleans Conservatory of Music. On one recital I played Bach-Busoni Fugue in D Major. MUCH easier than the organ Toccata. Georgy Cziffra has a rendition of that work on YT.
Hi Dear uncd; while watching and listening to this work I was reminded of a friend I knew over 50 years ago. Roy Daniels, TX and Olka oil money. Conoco Oil . He was an organist and we help repare and old rundown organ in Norforlk VA... whille we were in the Navy back in 1966. This work, the toccata in f. Major... importance. Anybody heard of Roy Daniels?
The written composition is kind of skeleton... upon the living - fleshed must be fleshed out. Merely repeating the notes on these kinds of instruments... reveals the lack of imagination on the part of those forms of limited thinking lead to. The so-called 'right way.' I say, Drape these notes with new sounds.... Bring in the synthesizers. Don't imitate. Create!!! and Re - create! The Full Spectrum of Light is present upon us ALL.... all the time, if only we remembered more often.
Bach's writing for organ is without a doubt some of the most haunting, thrilling music ever to be realized. I like the way scrolling the score illustrates the ingenuity of his casting the toccata as a trio of voices (two manuals and pedal) each fully independent and interdependent in the total. Scrolling provides a graphic demonstration of how Bach layers his motives in twos and threes for maximum clarity and aesthetic effect. The writing is neither too dense nor too thin to be entirely graspable. Chapuis, always the consummate interpreter, understands the beauty of Bach's structure and chooses the right registration and tempi. Thanks for a great video. The toccata must have been a muscle builder for the boys pumping the bellows in the old days with its initial long, sustained F pedal. What an effect it creates when the bass is finally unleashed to become as active as the upper voices. I love listening for the trio of imitative entrances throughout that go off like skyrockets in triplicate. The order of the voices keeps changing, but when I hear that distinctive volley of notes shooting upward and drifting down in one of the voices, I anticipate its echo in another and another after that. It's a wild ride through changing keys, rhythmic intricacies, and chromatic surprises, but I feel I have at last pulled into the home stretch as the bass line floats down to a low C and locks in place for 23 measures. The end, right? No, Bach throws in seven more measures of broken C octaves then, suddenly, C flat, more chromatic fireworks, one last wild pedal passage, and the whole thing turns the corner to arrive where it began in magnificent F major! The thrill never gets old.
Never liked 576. Sounds like it belongs in The Organ Booklet.(Das Orgelbüchlein) Like 768 better than 767. Another I dislike and have played only once. (Head is too full of Max Reger to remember what it is!)
The deceptive cadences are like the Baroque version of Wagner's Tristan Chord. Actively pisses you off but also amuses you as you never know when the resolution is really coming and then it just hits you in the end suddenly leaving you thinking "Wait what?! F Major already. But why....."
Superb absolute excellent music.. (so good to see it as a musical score!!) How is it possible that a person could compose this????.. especially to see the musical score of the 'pedal work' was like a revelation!!!
Ktoś kto tak opisywał utwory religijne, tak wypowiadał się o Bogu: „SOLI DEO GLORIA”. „Bogu jedynemu chwała” Bóg nie mógł poskąpić talentu. Jest jeszcze jedna dedykacja Pana Bach: " Bogu na chwałę jedynie, a ludziom na pożytek, co z nauki płynie"! Nic dodać nic ujać.
Gerubach, I dont know why, but this *toccata-fugue* has captured me in a way that teleports me to another planet...It must be my 100th time that I hear it...thx you very much. Thx J.S.Bach. All the honors for both of you... Sorry for misleading musical terms because in my native language "song" is equal "music" as well to "piece of something". I don't know much about musical terms. My best skill is feeling with heart. Thanks for yall feedback.
@@marensavino Saying "it's not a song. it's a piece" is akin to saying "it's not a car. it's a vehicle" after someone pointed at a Mercedes van and said that it's their favorite car. It makes it look like you don't really know what you're talking about, but still want to pedantically correct someone. There's no song here. Instead there's a toccata and there's a fugue. All three of those things are pieces. I'm being fairly pedantic here myself, but I'm tired of seeing this comment all over the internet. It sounds silly, and it's so incredibly common I've actually seen it used for ACTUAL songs (like arias from an opera or cantata). This isn't really directed at you. This comment was just the millionth straw that broke my humped, camel back.
@@marensavino I didn't really expect a response, and I'm also not sure why you chose that particular part to respond to. I have no idea where you get the idea that a piece can only be instrumental, though. A song is most definitely a piece of music. The same way a truck is a vehicle. I even double-checked just in case I've been grossly mislead all these years, but I didn't find a single definition on any site or in any dictionary backing that up. In fact, some even explicitly use the words "instrumental or vocal tones" in the definition of a "piece of music".
This may be for 2 reasons. 1) The major key. (one of the very few in major) 2) The "teleporting" that begins at 3.35. This lifts me up & transports me as well.
@@Garrett_Rowland It could be that back then, they were always called "pieces of music", not "songs". "Song" seems to be a more modern term that we have dubbed to music that is shorter and far less grand then these old orchestrated pieces of music.
Thank you so much. The music of JS Bach is the best. The organist is outstanding in this video. Long live JSB! Thank you for your work. It is too much fun to read the music while it is being played.
I can just picture that J.S. was a great dancer, light on his feet and so graceful. This is a dance, as is a lot of his music. Perhaps he saw life as a dance. I think this my favorite Bach piece.
Funny you should say this, as the way Gesner described Bach's conducting almost sounds like a dance. It must have been astonishing to watch this immense composer perform and conduct his own works.
I've been addicted to this piece since I was a young lad! I also practice it in the organ, it's so much fun to just play it out! The fugue is sublime, I like the way you expose it, you give it sweet and clear articulations, an extremely cantabile détaché. It's an amazing fugue.
What's the fucking hurry? Where ya going... for gods sake? Don't give me that "correct" crap. Listen to your self. Listen to the room. Listen... you're suppose to be in control. Listen. I won't say it again. Listen. This is the work... that changed my life. Ready? Listen. I heard Fernando Germani play this in Moscow, Idaho in the late 50's. And I remember it now and "now" is Jan. 13th, 2020 AD ... with God complete... satisfied, thankful, resolute and informed. Thank you. Cameron Carpenter does a much more interesting performance of this work. Be fucking inspired. Well, what do you got to loose?
T. Alexander E. No s**t, I get it all right, but watch your ears!! Hearing loss after years of headphone listening is not fun! But I agree this music up close and personal is mind blowing and I can’t think of a better descriptor.
T. Alexander E. Yep! And it all comes together from the hands of Bach at this point, climactic, reaching for home, thundering up from pedal depths, we’ve heard the last iteration of this fugue theme and it’s more glorious than our minds can take. Gooseflesh, hair raising, sometimes eyes welling up, stupefying.
Does Mr. Chapuis always use that registration? I prefer the bass to be bit more pronounced and audible when the "flute-y" treble plays, as a matter of fact, all lines... The long droning F & C in the Toccata is funny to me, though I'm not sure why. Bach is going insane with the key changes, I sometimes forgot what key it's originally in!!
6:14 If you have a modern Organ w/ a 5 (or more) Octave Keyboard, you can take those 2 measures (for the Manuals) & play them an Octave higher than written.
Turn around the telescope and point the telescope inwards. The most amazing sights and sounds can be found there. Regards from a former star-gazer living in the big city now.
What is wonderful about this, for both parts but especially the fugue, is how a simple statement evolves into the most phantasmogorical mind blowing creative romp.
Fun seeing the score. Thank you. Memorized this in late teens and had not seen it since. Why a little rushed? Does not play the pedal trills. Please show the B A C H motive in the pedal (4:06, 6:20, 8:20). I continue the fugue ornaments throughout the work, even in the pedal. Though slightly slow, I like Helmut Walcha the best.
My theory is that the pedal solo brings us down into the chaos of matter from which we emerge, and that F sharp has to be there to represent reaching the bottom; but the G pedal note follows and we emerge into the most joyous part of the piece. I'm sure the F sharp is the original version, but some editors think it was a mistake and change it all to the dominant G note. I think not!
Where is the Clavier-Übung III? I remember seeing you were working on it from the home page of your channel. Is it still a work in progress or has it been delayed? I'm anxious to see what a scrolling score it is. I love the mass.
I preferred the Toccata -- although unmusically metronomic -- to the Fugue, mainly because Chapius, for some reason, accelerates the tempo as more stops are added. Very unsettling and out of character for Baroque music. Also, the organ is quite unpleasant to listen to -- very screechy and harsh mixtures -- and the wind-supply/tuning leaves much to be desired. He gets the notes right, but offers little in the way of phrasing/delineating the musical architecture, and poeticism. I've heard far more appealing and nuanced performances from college students. 5 stars out of 10.
Vid is 14 and a half minute long. Ugh, do I have time for this? I don't know, these are so long, and I got stuff to do... (14 and a half minutes later): Hey, wait is it over already? Damn, that can't be it?! Did I really get so lost in all that, time slipped by me? ... :\
This is by far my favorite performance. Very engaging. Great registration, articulation, and tempo. Manuals very clear and distinct from pedals, which in some recordings muddy up the manual work.
Good, but a bit rushed. The best rendition of the toccata, IMHO after listening to dozens of them many times, is by E Power Biggs: ua-cam.com/video/cLHh5P_Qs3M/v-deo.html
@@chonpincher I could never get past Bigg's staccato approach to this piece. That diminishes it for me. Many other interpretations are better, including this one.
+Martijn Pieterman The 2 & 3 part inventions. I was ahead of schedule and decided to squeeze them in before working on the St. John Passion. Thank you for sharing my video Martijn!
A french organist visited Bach when Bach was playing but just gone with the reality that Bach could play on feet even faster than him.lf l just close this fugue with (as pianist copins idea) that nothing is more than easy not 'talking difficult' well.....
This always was one of my favourites. Unfortunately, the sound quality here on UA-cam with a sound card or with very expensive CD players in my cars are not good enough for organ music. However, on my Yamaha C1 and M1 with Infinity loudspeakers… Ages ago I had a copy of Walcha's complete Bach and some recordings wee made in the 1950ies - shudder…
Right hand plays top (treble) clef, left land middle (bass) clef and both feet the bottom (bass) clef, which often sounds an octave lower than written.
I’d like to share a musical experience. I was in my bed sit. The music system I had was very good. I played this music for the first time. I thought the theme sounded a bit Scottish because the trill in the theme gave it quite a lilt. It surprised me as it continued because the cadences and the smiquaver seemed so fresh and new but also somehow familiar, wrapped in sequences that seemed half expected, very comfortable. To be honest, it swept me away. I felt transported. The music seemed to be endless and I didn’t mind one bit. Then something unexpected happened. As the falling arpeggios on the first movement were sustained, I could scarcely believe my ears, it was like my entire listening ‘body’ was suspended, floating, just like those sustained notes. My reasoning mind which had been thinking of following the voices could scarcely take units complexity and its simplicity. Bach, I don’t know how you did this. It’s like you understood my journey and you wanted to tell me something about my heart. Something words couldn’t say. I wonder if you were a divine mind that came to tell us all something. We certainly needed to hear your message. Thank you friend.
You have got to see it before you believe it, and it works. A very polyphonic experience. Nice speed, often played to hasty. The fugue could a bit slower.
The version is beautifully played. Maybe it is my sound system but I wish the placement of the microphone(s) was better thought out. I will try again with better speakers and amp.
Of everything l tried to play this was highest even comparison Liszt BACH, most of LA Nativite de seigeur,Alain Litanie(of course don't compare as l am trilled with,l think Chopin Great is that he didn't compare but only had childish play courisity in him,Rubinstein was angry to hear that he was the 'best' For everyone is unique he said his own planet not to be compared to anyone
I am always wondering, if this toccata is a refined improvisation. It feels always so fresh and the ideas quite simple - and soooo colorful! I wonder, what Jazz musician would think about this.
I've only just realised that the top two parts are identical during the counterpoint sections at the beginning, it's just they're an octave apart and one is on a two bar delay to the other! How have I only just realised that!?
Had Bach decided to not be the greatest composer of all time I really think he could have been one of the greatest mathematicians.
The connection between music and mathematics destroys the false dichotomy of 'arts' versus 'sciences'.
At this point in time music was treated as a series of equations, which honestly makes me feel stressed out when I listen to it because it feels like run on sentences in dry language.
I hate to use the example of Flea and John Frusciante, but they are such a vivid example of music as communication that it's hard to explain it in other terms. Flea's baselines will carry a shape of a chord, scale, or harmony inside them, without explicitly being built around them. John will say that he often feels like there's only one solution to the puzzle that Flea is creating, but that Flea then feels like there is a logical next step to what he plays as he hears what John's doing, which makes some of their live jams just mesmerizing. They both strongly believe in the Japanese/jazz ideal of space. In many interviews and podcasts, John especially will talk about how the space between the notes is just as important, and sometimes more important than the notes, because it allows the notes to stand on their own and reverberate.
With this music I feel dizzy. It feels like there's nothing being communicated. It feels like noise without feeling. It's the opposite of what make reggae, metal, movie scores, rock, rap, jazz, and even dubstep feel satisfying to listen to. There's no space.
@@Musicienne-DAB1995 yeah only cock suckers say that
@@Starbuck32123 I think your issue with type of music is philosophical in nature and not musical. Not everything is phenomenological, nor is everything rigidly metaphysical (
I often feel like he knew the secrets of the universe better than scientists, or at least channeled a part of it. Since music was his media, all the secrets are written as musical notes, special codes for us to decipher.
I remember, back in 1974, when I was doing my military service at the age of 19, one of my mates came up to me and said: “One of my friends has got a classical record that he wants to sell. Aren’ t you one that likes that kind of stuff? Wanna buy it?” I had to admit that I actually was one of those peculiar human beings, and asked if I could see the record in question. A few days later he brought the record and we agreed upon the sum of 10 Swedish Crowns ( between 1 USD and 1 GBP). It has been my favourite of Bachs mighty flowing organ works ever since. My preferred recording today is by Simon Preston and the recording back then was with Helmut Walcha. Always interested to hear suggestions of your favourites.
Best Regards from Sweden/ Per
Kevin Bowyer is often super-excellent.
I have not seen this score in 64 years! This was my "exam piece" to sight-read (Toccata only) for AGO certification in Dallas TX in 1955. I love Bach, but I never played this piece again.
Good lord they give you this toccata to sight read? An excerpt I hope. Even for masters of Bach this is a tricky one.
to sight read... this? Are you sure it wasn't something else?
It consisted of selected portions. As I recall there was only a section of one pedal solo. Years before that I was a piano student at New Orleans Conservatory of Music. On one recital I played Bach-Busoni Fugue in D Major. MUCH easier than the organ Toccata. Georgy Cziffra has a rendition of that work on YT.
Hi Dear uncd; while watching and listening to this work I was reminded of a friend I knew over 50 years ago. Roy Daniels, TX and Olka oil money. Conoco Oil . He was an organist and we help repare and old rundown organ in Norforlk VA... whille we were in the Navy back in 1966. This work, the toccata in f. Major... importance. Anybody heard of Roy Daniels?
Ha! Lucky for me to "sight read" this because I memorized it. Too difficulto for me read and play athe same time. Same with Max Reger.
The written composition is kind of skeleton... upon the living - fleshed must be fleshed out. Merely repeating the notes on these kinds of instruments... reveals the lack of imagination on the part of those forms of limited thinking lead to. The so-called 'right way.' I say, Drape these notes with new sounds.... Bring in the synthesizers. Don't imitate. Create!!! and Re - create! The Full Spectrum of Light is present upon us ALL.... all the time, if only we remembered more often.
Bach's writing for organ is without a doubt some of the most haunting, thrilling music ever to be realized. I like the way scrolling the score illustrates the ingenuity of his casting the toccata as a trio of voices (two manuals and pedal) each fully independent and interdependent in the total. Scrolling provides a graphic demonstration of how Bach layers his motives in twos and threes for maximum clarity and aesthetic effect. The writing is neither too dense nor too thin to be entirely graspable. Chapuis, always the consummate interpreter, understands the beauty of Bach's structure and chooses the right registration and tempi. Thanks for a great video.
The toccata must have been a muscle builder for the boys pumping the bellows in the old days with its initial long, sustained F pedal. What an effect it creates when the bass is finally unleashed to become as active as the upper voices. I love listening for the trio of imitative entrances throughout that go off like skyrockets in triplicate. The order of the voices keeps changing, but when I hear that distinctive volley of notes shooting upward and drifting down in one of the voices, I anticipate its echo in another and another after that. It's a wild ride through changing keys, rhythmic intricacies, and chromatic surprises, but I feel I have at last pulled into the home stretch as the bass line floats down to a low C and locks in place for 23 measures. The end, right? No, Bach throws in seven more measures of broken C octaves then, suddenly, C flat, more chromatic fireworks, one last wild pedal passage, and the whole thing turns the corner to arrive where it began in magnificent F major! The thrill never gets old.
I'm very enamored of Kevin Bowyer's interpretations.
Do you know Smalin?
Great observations !
A marvellous explanation!
When comes all in the end its a master piece. I Love this
That toccata is MASSIVE!
The end of the fugue where the 2 themes come togheter. Goosebumps.
This is my favorite Bach organ work.
@Deborah what about the little fugue?
BWV 548 "Wedge" is my favorite, then this and 577 "Gigue" fugue. Then "Dorian" T&F.
One notices there is not a single work by Bach which someone in the comments doesn't proclaim to be their favourite 😊
Never liked 576. Sounds like it belongs in The Organ Booklet.(Das Orgelbüchlein) Like 768 better than 767. Another I dislike and have played only once. (Head is too full of Max Reger to remember what it is!)
"St. Anne"? Some choral préludes ? 668? Nun komm den heiland (forgot the number, there are three in the Leipziger Chorales)
The deceptive cadences are like the Baroque version of Wagner's Tristan Chord. Actively pisses you off but also amuses you as you never know when the resolution is really coming and then it just hits you in the end suddenly leaving you thinking "Wait what?! F Major already. But why....."
No organists were harmed during the making of this video
Are you sure? lol
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No Bach's were harmed during the production of this comment.
Leave, you blasphemous imposter!
@@danielzhu7785 looks like some Bach had his feelings harmed.
Superb absolute excellent music.. (so good to see it as a musical score!!) How is it possible that a person could compose this????.. especially to see the musical score of the 'pedal work' was like a revelation!!!
Genius is unreachable to ordinary persons...
Ktoś kto tak opisywał utwory religijne, tak wypowiadał się o Bogu: „SOLI DEO GLORIA”. „Bogu jedynemu chwała” Bóg nie mógł poskąpić talentu.
Jest jeszcze jedna dedykacja Pana Bach: " Bogu na chwałę jedynie, a ludziom na pożytek, co z nauki płynie"! Nic dodać nic ujać.
That’s how I feel when I hear 95% of Bach’s music
Gerubach, I dont know why, but this *toccata-fugue* has captured me in a way that teleports me to another planet...It must be my 100th time that I hear it...thx you very much. Thx J.S.Bach. All the honors for both of you...
Sorry for misleading musical terms because in my native language "song" is equal "music" as well to "piece of something". I don't know much about musical terms. My best skill is feeling with heart. Thanks for yall feedback.
Sorry for being that one picky guy, but...... IT’S NOT A SONGGGGGG
😁😁😁
@@marensavino Saying "it's not a song. it's a piece" is akin to saying "it's not a car. it's a vehicle" after someone pointed at a Mercedes van and said that it's their favorite car. It makes it look like you don't really know what you're talking about, but still want to pedantically correct someone.
There's no song here. Instead there's a toccata and there's a fugue. All three of those things are pieces.
I'm being fairly pedantic here myself, but I'm tired of seeing this comment all over the internet. It sounds silly, and it's so incredibly common I've actually seen it used for ACTUAL songs (like arias from an opera or cantata).
This isn't really directed at you. This comment was just the millionth straw that broke my humped, camel back.
@@marensavino I didn't really expect a response, and I'm also not sure why you chose that particular part to respond to.
I have no idea where you get the idea that a piece can only be instrumental, though. A song is most definitely a piece of music. The same way a truck is a vehicle. I even double-checked just in case I've been grossly mislead all these years, but I didn't find a single definition on any site or in any dictionary backing that up. In fact, some even explicitly use the words "instrumental or vocal tones" in the definition of a "piece of music".
This may be for 2 reasons. 1) The major key. (one of the very few in major) 2) The "teleporting" that begins at 3.35.
This lifts me up & transports me as well.
@@Garrett_Rowland It could be that back then, they were always called "pieces of music", not "songs". "Song" seems to be a more modern term that we have dubbed to music that is shorter and far less grand then these old orchestrated pieces of music.
Thank you so much. The music of JS Bach is the best. The organist is outstanding in this video. Long live JSB! Thank you for your work. It is too much fun to read the music while it is being played.
This organist is insanely good.
With Bach one always says this is the best ever! And then you come across another and recant, no this is the best! Well, this IS the best.
Haha, yes, that is the beauty of Bach!
I can just picture that J.S. was a great dancer, light on his feet and so graceful. This is a dance, as is a lot of his music. Perhaps he saw life as a dance. I think this my favorite Bach piece.
Funny you should say this, as the way Gesner described Bach's conducting almost sounds like a dance. It must have been astonishing to watch this immense composer perform and conduct his own works.
You've done an excellent work… as always! Thank you so much!
+Canal de Alver Thank you kindly for your positive feedback and I am pleased that you enjoyed this animation. More to come!
This is an outstanding toccata and fuge by JS Bach, a true manifestation of Bach's genius in beauty and power of his music.
Em pensar que deixaram a memória desse homem por 1 século no esquecimento dá arrepios! Obrigado Mendelssohn!
Bem lembrado que a nossa gratidão de Mendelssohn não pode ter limites.
3:58 waltz in D minor
I've been addicted to this piece since I was a young lad! I also practice it in the organ, it's so much fun to just play it out! The fugue is sublime, I like the way you expose it, you give it sweet and clear articulations, an extremely cantabile détaché. It's an amazing fugue.
Wow! You know I am beginning to understand even more thanks to you that music is it's own actual language!! Isn't it?!?
What's the fucking hurry? Where ya going... for gods sake? Don't give me that "correct" crap. Listen to your self. Listen to the room. Listen... you're suppose to be in control. Listen. I won't say it again. Listen. This is the work... that changed my life. Ready? Listen. I heard Fernando Germani play this in Moscow, Idaho in the late 50's. And I remember it now and "now" is Jan. 13th, 2020 AD ... with God complete... satisfied, thankful, resolute and informed. Thank you. Cameron Carpenter does a much more interesting performance of this work. Be fucking inspired. Well, what do you got to loose?
13:28 - 14:15 I just listened to this part with headphoned at full volume, I've never felt such an intense feeling while listening to music...
T. Alexander E. No s**t, I get it all right, but watch your ears!! Hearing loss after years of headphone listening is not fun! But I agree this music up close and personal is mind blowing and I can’t think of a better descriptor.
T. Alexander E. Yep! And it all comes together from the hands of Bach at this point, climactic, reaching for home, thundering up from pedal depths, we’ve heard the last iteration of this fugue theme and it’s more glorious than our minds can take. Gooseflesh, hair raising, sometimes eyes welling up, stupefying.
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this is truly my fav piece by Bach ever!
This sounds like the Bach era equivalent of happy carnival organ music. And I can’t listen to it without a goofy grin spreading across my face.
Please Gerubach, make a Video with Max Reger's Op. 135b "Fantasia & Fugue in d minor"
Does Mr. Chapuis always use that registration? I prefer the bass to be bit more pronounced and audible when the "flute-y" treble plays, as a matter of fact, all lines...
The long droning F & C in the Toccata is funny to me, though I'm not sure why. Bach is going insane with the key changes, I sometimes forgot what key it's originally in!!
Lol welcome to Bach
He does that in almost all his pieces, Goldberg and some dance suites are the exception I suspect
in other brilliant Chapuis recordings you can hear the cars outside the church sometimes. Makes it special somehow.
Божественная 🎶 🎶 🎶 музыка органная слава композитору нашей эпохи ❤❤❤😎 😍 🤩 😋 ❤❤❤😎
6:14 If you have a modern Organ w/ a 5 (or more) Octave Keyboard, you can take those 2 measures (for the Manuals) & play them an Octave higher than written.
Everytime I listen to this, I always expect it to drop into "The Only Way" by Emerson, Lake, & Palmer.
YAWN...
@@herrickinman9303 What do you like to listen to?
The fugue is a LOT more musically interesting that I thought it was!
Incredible. Bach is God in music. And I'm an atheist ex-astronomer.
Turn around the telescope and point the telescope inwards. The most amazing sights and sounds can be found there. Regards from a former star-gazer living in the big city now.
Es increíble disfrutar de la música ahora viendo cómo está escrita!!!
Gracias por esta maravillosa aportación!!!
What is wonderful about this, for both parts but especially the fugue, is how a simple statement evolves into the most phantasmogorical mind blowing creative romp.
Fun seeing the score. Thank you. Memorized this in late teens and had not seen it since.
Why a little rushed? Does not play the pedal trills.
Please show the B A C H motive in the pedal (4:06, 6:20, 8:20).
I continue the fugue ornaments throughout the work, even in the pedal.
Though slightly slow, I like Helmut Walcha the best.
Oh those deceptive cadences
Orochimaru approaching 😮
3:29. So jazzy
¿Why in 1:49 some organists do F sharp instead of G? For example in this video...
My theory is that the pedal solo brings us down into the chaos of matter from which we emerge, and that F sharp has to be there to represent reaching the bottom; but the G pedal note follows and we emerge into the most joyous part of the piece. I'm sure the F sharp is the original version, but some editors think it was a mistake and change it all to the dominant G note. I think not!
Where is the Clavier-Übung III? I remember seeing you were working on it from the home page of your channel.
Is it still a work in progress or has it been delayed? I'm anxious to see what a scrolling score it is. I love the mass.
I preferred the Toccata -- although unmusically metronomic -- to the Fugue, mainly because Chapius, for some reason, accelerates the tempo as more stops are added. Very unsettling and out of character for Baroque music.
Also, the organ is quite unpleasant to listen to -- very screechy and harsh mixtures -- and the wind-supply/tuning leaves much to be desired.
He gets the notes right, but offers little in the way of phrasing/delineating the musical architecture, and poeticism.
I've heard far more appealing and nuanced performances from college students. 5 stars out of 10.
Vid is 14 and a half minute long. Ugh, do I have time for this? I don't know, these are so long, and I got stuff to do...
(14 and a half minutes later): Hey, wait is it over already? Damn, that can't be it?! Did I really get so lost in all that, time slipped by me? ... :\
If you listen at 1.25x speed, the melodic lines become amazingly clear in both the toccata and fugue.
no.
What? Learn the organ and play it 25% faster or find someone who does
How in the hell does one man compose AND play this?????
Because once in a while a genius is born.
@@jokinezenarro6699 Yes, once in 2000 years a genius like this is born. That means that we will not see someone like him in our lifetime...
@@aricy1Thats not true, Newton, Einstein... were born after Bach.
@@jokinezenarro6699 - different fields but I understand.
@@jokinezenarro6699 Newton was born 40 years before Bach.....please educate yourself
Beautiful and tedious.... works the nerves.... needs a change of voices... . Harmony of the 17 century. at its best. Thanks for sharing. moi
This is an 18th-century composition. Read a book on music history.
I'm spending days listening to this masterpiece, and I reached, at least, one conclusión: J.S.Bach invented the psychodelic music
This is by far my favorite performance. Very engaging. Great registration, articulation, and tempo. Manuals very clear and distinct from pedals, which in some recordings muddy up the manual work.
Debbie Davidson have you heard one of Marie-Claire Alain’s interpretations? Masterful.
@@jamesbattista1466 no
Good, but a bit rushed. The best rendition of the toccata, IMHO after listening to dozens of them many times, is by E Power Biggs:
ua-cam.com/video/cLHh5P_Qs3M/v-deo.html
Don't miss Campolieta's
@@chonpincher I could never get past Bigg's staccato approach to this piece. That diminishes it for me. Many other interpretations are better, including this one.
I have the video shared on Google+
A question: What is your next BWV?
+Martijn Pieterman The 2 & 3 part inventions. I was ahead of schedule and decided to squeeze them in before working on the St. John Passion. Thank you for sharing my video Martijn!
Nobody cares about Google+.
@@pingpongpung Wtf
I’m here from Emerson Lake and Palmer
I have seen several of these now, and I must say that it is thanks to you that I have developed such a passion for these works. Keep it up.
What a great piece of music. So wonderful to be able to read along with it. Gerubach, you're a magician! Thank you.
Goosebumps @ 3:34
Just heard this in church, searched for it on youtube immediately afterwards, found it here. Thank you!
I heard Frenando Germani play this great work and it changed my life. Yeah!!!!! Thank you all for sharing. CVD
Absolutely DOPE!
A french organist visited Bach when Bach was playing but just gone with the reality that Bach could play on feet even faster than him.lf l just close this fugue with (as pianist copins idea) that nothing is more than easy not 'talking difficult' well.....
Hard work take away this difficult
Bravo bravo bravo bravo bravo brilliance fantastic grandiose genial music super
We as musician should have Bach(as Chopin Schumann. Danger as that FIST HAS REPLACED HIM
Schreibmaschine
I use to cry to fugue
This always was one of my favourites.
Unfortunately, the sound quality here on UA-cam with a sound card or with very expensive CD players in my cars are not good enough for organ music.
However, on my Yamaha C1 and M1 with Infinity loudspeakers…
Ages ago I had a copy of Walcha's complete Bach and some recordings wee made in the 1950ies - shudder…
Of Liszt b-a-c-h prelude, Alain lithania, much Messiaen, much
Bach l played, this toccata was strongest easily titan
Such an amazing fugue, it almost becomes a 2 subjects fugue... Bach, my master
It is a double fugue.
jonathan di fiore rachmaninoff
If the break of day had a soundtrack, this would be it.
please, could anybody explain me for what is the third staff?
is it played with the foots?
thx
+Martí Lluch Ferrer Yes.
Right hand plays top (treble) clef, left land middle (bass) clef and both feet the bottom (bass) clef, which often sounds an octave lower than written.
I’d like to share a musical experience. I was in my bed sit. The music system I had was very good. I played this music for the first time. I thought the theme sounded a bit Scottish because the trill in the theme gave it quite a lilt. It surprised me as it continued because the cadences and the smiquaver seemed so fresh and new but also somehow familiar, wrapped in sequences that seemed half expected, very comfortable. To be honest, it swept me away. I felt transported. The music seemed to be endless and I didn’t mind one bit. Then something unexpected happened. As the falling arpeggios on the first movement were sustained, I could scarcely believe my ears, it was like my entire listening ‘body’ was suspended, floating, just like those sustained notes. My reasoning mind which had been thinking of following the voices could scarcely take units complexity and its simplicity.
Bach, I don’t know how you did this. It’s like you understood my journey and you wanted to tell me something about my heart. Something words couldn’t say. I wonder if you were a divine mind that came to tell us all something. We certainly needed to hear your message. Thank you friend.
Also, the origins of heavy metal and Dance Dance Revolution all in one piece. (Well, the Toccata)
Bach was SO ahead of his time, predicting themes that would not be exploited for several centuries.
Yawn...
@@Musicienne-DAB1995 As if heavy metal and "dance dance revolution" represent progress in the development of Western music. lol
Can i ask You to do like this prelude and fugue on b-a-c-h written by Ferenc Liszt? Pretty Please!!!
The tocata is a trip to heaven
Orgel Stueck: Praeludieum, Felicitas, Karitas...
Diploma piece proud like Ceasars, only for sure succeeded by symfonic fantasy - Reger, maybe trois dances-Alain. BEAUTY EVEN THIS FUGUE
The best with it like Beethoven Pathetique is that everything else seems very easy as in case someone' comes back from Sibiria'
You have got to see it before you believe it, and it works. A very polyphonic experience. Nice speed, often played to hasty. The fugue could a bit slower.
Play the toccata and you can play what ever you wish mostly
That's the wonderful thing about Bach. His music has a tremendous didactic quality: mastering his pieces means you can access many others.
We had to wait 150 years to find such gifted enormous one solistic great but most of all the combination foot foot hand hand
The version is beautifully played. Maybe it is my sound system but I wish the placement of the microphone(s) was better thought out. I will try again with better speakers and amp.
Une merveille. La sienne. La nôtre.
I love this bwv! It reminds me carousels it's so rich in harmony and brilliant. Bless God for his gift to us that is Bach's compositions.
ABSOLUTLY ENJOYABLE and your scrolling method is such that I can play along. Thank you very much
So mathematic sound, in a good way
That's the beauty of Bach: intellectual satisfaction and true beauty melted into one.
Anyone else here because of "Strange Gateways Beckon" by Tribulation?
The total measures of Toccata is 439
This music is so perfect, seems like it could've been written by a computer...
Wow! Watching the music scroll by and listening intently is quite an experience. Words fail.
Was practicing this on the Knuth practice organ at Stanford when computer science took me up and OUT. :-)
Amazing.
Could gerubach post the Prelude and Fugue in Eb major, St. Anne?
Breathtaking. As magnificent the Dminor Toccato&Fugue is, I enjoy this one more
This is on my Simply Organ program for day six. I can't wait!
Thanks for posting this! It's a beautiful piece, I've never heard this one before! Keep up the good work! :)
sin palabras!
+Pedro Lezaeta ¡con palabras! - ¡GRACIAS!
Ma questa non è una trascrizione di un Ricercare di Giovanni Gabrieli, di qualche decennii precedente?
El rey del organo!!!
Bach Händel visited Buxtehude but left when he offered them his daughter.They never met each other even born the same year
Of everything l tried to play this was highest even comparison Liszt BACH, most of LA Nativite de seigeur,Alain Litanie(of course don't compare as l am trilled with,l think Chopin Great is that he didn't compare but only had childish play courisity in him,Rubinstein was angry to hear that he was the 'best' For everyone is unique he said his own planet not to be compared to anyone
can you imagine the two top voices if this was played on a wind or brass instrument?
I am always wondering, if this toccata is a refined improvisation. It feels always so fresh and the ideas quite simple - and soooo colorful!
I wonder, what Jazz musician would think about this.
Oscar Peterson, Barry Harris, Nina Simone are just a few of the jazz musicians past and present who revered Bach.
Who cares what jazz musicians think? lol
I've only just realised that the top two parts are identical during the counterpoint sections at the beginning, it's just they're an octave apart and one is on a two bar delay to the other! How have I only just realised that!?
Yes it's a Canon.
Too fucking fast. Jesus.
The footwork on this piece is ridiculous. So difficult.
Wish the long pedal points in F and C had beed more audible!